Now please don’t misunderstand, even on these forums the rampant abuse of language is busy at work. Like a cancer it seems to have spread all over the internet, mostly in forums argumentums, but it even creeps into the blogosphere.
You see that?
“A cite is requested”. It makes one cringe. All the more so when the writer of the vulgar phrase is trying to put them self forth as an authority, the bringer of truth, and their demands are from the pulpit, speaking down to their opponents.
Is as if a SC Judge demanded of a witness that he “compose himself in a manner deflitting[sic] of the court”, and didn’t blink and eye, much less notice the stares of every member of the proceeding. One’s authority is diminished when one is unaware of his own actions.